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Rachel Rueckert - East Winds

Rachel Rueckert
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Fred Stella welcomes Rachel Rueckert, author of East Winds, to Common Threads

Rachel Rueckert joins us to talk about marriage in Mormonism. She is the author of East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage.

From Rachel’s ABOUT page at rachelrueckert.com:

Rachel Rueckert is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher who splits her time between Salt Lake City and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University as well as an M.Ed from Boston University. Rachel specializes in creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, ghostwriting, and curriculum design. As a seventh-generation Utahn, her favorite subjects include place, travel, family, mental health, unconventional spirituality, and climate change. She co-founded KLEIO, a family story writing service, and acts as the editor in chief of Exponent II, a Mormon feminist quarterly that was established in 1974.

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